The Brookhaven leader., 1887-03-24

HUGH BRBsLTN, a starter at Belmont CO..
liery, near Mount Carmel, Pa, was blown
TO fragments the other day by the explO-
sion Of quantity OF dualin powder that he
held In his hand.
A CYCLONE swept through Tampa, Fla,
on the night Of the nth, destroying sew
eral houses. Two children were killed, one
woman was fatally injured and several
persons seriously hurt. The pecuniary loss
was about $4,000.
A PANIC occurred at the Roman Catholic
Church Of the Nativity, Chicago, on the
18th. The church was completely crowded.
All at once there was sharp crack, fol-
lowed by grinding crash, and fully 200
men, women and children were precipitated
ten feet, the entire platform having given
way. Twenty-three persons received more
or less serious injuries. Mrs. Burns, an
aged woman, and John Quinn, had their
backs broken and will die.
THE German steamer Rata, bound for
the Sandwich islands, burned at sea Feb
ruary l6. The crew were supposed to be
lost.
The Southern Cotton Seed Oil Company
has contracted for over a quarter Of a mil
lion dollars worth Of machinery to put in
new mills IN the South.
an extensive brokerage business and the
firm had been reputed extremely wealthy.
1t has developed that the concern was en-
gagged in extensive swindling, reaching, ac-
cording to report, as much as $1,000, 900.
The exposure took place on the flight Of
Walter Z. Lawton, head of the firm in New
York
THREE vigilantes, while engaged in whip
ping an aged woman in Rock Castle Coun-
ty, KY, recently were shot dead by un-
known parties. Great excitement existed
The woman was whipped for selling liquor.
The New York Star says that it is official
ly announced that the syndicate which has
obtained control of the Baltimore 4 Ohio
road is the one which represents the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Com.
pany.
DIR. T. c. FORD, under sentence for man
slaughter, having been pardoned by the
Governor of louisiana was released from
the parish prison on the nth.
THE President has commissioned d.
Lynch Pringle, of South Carolina, to be
Consul General of the United States at
Constantinople.
THE Richmond Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y,
burst into flames early on the morning OF
the 18th. Ten or twelve lives were lost
and about thirty persons were injured,
some very seriously. Many of the casual
ties occurred in jumping from windows.
The damage amounted to 800, ,0O0 the build
ings adjoining the hotel being consumed by
the flames
Two girls, students, are reported to have
been f1ogged to insensibility for their con-
nection with the nihilist conspiracy to as
sassinate the Car.
Nv hoF n;s
Supreme Court, the execution of the
Chicago anarchists can not take place be-
fore October even if the decision is adverse
to their appeal, as the ruling will be made
when the court meets in session in Septem-
ber.
BISMARCK. Oak, was threatened with a
food on the 18th, caused by the breaking of
an ice gorge. The large warehouse Of the
Northern Pacific was carried away.
CHICAGO mere hants and manufacturers
have combined to resist the proposed ad-
vance in rates to comercial travellers.
MATHEsoN Il Co, of London, have offered
for public subscription $40, 100000 worth of
six per cent. gold bonds of the denomina-
tiou of 81 900 each of the Mexidan National
Railway Company at ninety-two per cent.
A SERIOUS earthquake shock was felt at
Summerville, s. G., on the evening of the
18th.
THE long talked of sale of the Baltimore
4 Ohio railroad was completed on the 18th.
The Hamilton Il Dayton Railroad Company
purchased the property.
THE recent plot to murder the Gar has
been laid to the door of the noted nihilist
Degaietf, who escaped from Siberia, to
which place he had been sent for completely
in the murder of Sudeikin, chief Of police of
st. Petersburg.
THE Arkansas House has passed bill to
prevent the mortgaging of implanted crops.